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Pastor Floyd Perry ______ Transcription: Pastor Floyd Perry ________________________________________________________________ Today is Thursday, November 12, 2009. My name is James Crabtree, and I’ll be interviewing Pastor Floyd Perry. Pastor Perry is at his home in Houston, Texas, and I’m at the General Land Office Headquarters in Austin, Texas, and this interview is being conducted in support of the Texas Veterans Land Board Voices of Veterans Oral History Program. Sir, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us today. It’s an honor for us. And this whole program is about honoring veterans and trying to preserve their words for posterity, and I guess the first question we usually start off with is ask you just to tell us a little bit about your childhood and your life before you went into the military. Floyd Perry: Well, I was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and I joined the Marine Corps in high school at age 18. Out of Kansas City? Floyd Perry: Out of Kansas City, and that was in June of ’66, and I was in Vietnam starting December ’66. Wow. And what was growing up in Kansas City, what was it that made you want to join the Marine Corps? Floyd Perry: I’m going to be frank with you. I watched too many John Wayne movies. So what did your family think when you told them, or did you tell them that you were signing up? Floyd Perry: Oh, they were fine. My father was in the Army. I was the first to be in the Marine Corps. My grandfather was in the Army. Oh wow. Floyd Perry: Yeah, and so I was supposed to join the Marine Corps, then I had a brother behind me, he joined the Army, and then the last two joined the Marine Corps. Wow, so definitely a tradition in your family of military service, and so as the first one going into the Marine Corps, what did you expect, or was it what you expected when you got to boot camp? Floyd Perry: You know we have a documentary on YouTube, and it’s called Ottoman Brothers - I’ve had a chance to watch that. It was good. Floyd Perry: Yeah, and I’d like to make a statement that going to boot camp was a culture shock. But it was a great experience. Did you go to basic training in San Diego? Floyd Perry: Yes sir, I’m a Hollywood Marine. 1 Oh that’s the same with me. I went to the same spot, so I’m sure it probably hasn’t changed very much from when you were there when I was there, since it’s such an old depot. I know it opened in the 1920s. Floyd Perry: Yeah, well I got a chance to go back to see a graduation with my company 31. We did our reunion there in San Diego, and we got a chance to go to the MCR and see it. That’s great. Floyd Perry: And we even got a chance to go back up in Camp Pendleton to the rifle range. It was an awesome trip. But the Marines that are out there now, they are livin’ it up. They are livin’ it up. They don’t have any, we seen a building hut, but it was only ancient stuff. They live in dorms. Yeah, now you’re talking about the Marines at SOI, School of Infantry? Floyd Perry: Yeah. OK, yeah, that’s different. I know at boot camp though they’re still in the squad bays with the racks and - Floyd Perry: Yeah, they had, but see that’s still a squad bay instead of a building hut. Yeah, that’s true. Floyd Perry: So they’re definitely living it up. But it was an awesome privilege to see those Marines graduate. It took us back. When you went to boot camp, did they put you on a train, or did they fly you out there? How did you get to - Floyd Perry: They put me on a train. On a train. And how long was that train trip from Kansas City to San Diego? Floyd Perry: I couldn’t tell you. You know, we were there, all of us were just having such a great time. Yeah. Floyd Perry: Until they picked us up with the bus. And do you remember when you got to the recruit depot if it was in the morning or if it was night time or any of that sort of thing? Floyd Perry: It was in the morning. In the morning, OK. And tell us a little bit about your first thoughts when you got on that, when you drove into the recruit depot. 2 Floyd Perry: Well, you know, in the Marine Corps, they have like I said, it’s a culture shock. All the boys the very first day, it scares the daylights out of you when the commander gets on the bus and hollers “stand asshole to belly button,” and you say what? You say what? And the next thing you know you have to be indoctrinated in the Marine Corps way. That’s right. Floyd Perry: And I’m telling you, but I do remember this on my first day. After we got our haircuts and our one phone call and we had our yellow t-shirts on, and we were all in a group holding hands, and there was a graduating class there and they had just graduated, and they looked at us over there, and they yelled out, “you’re gonna be sorry!” It was an awesome time. That’s great. So you went through basic training. What were most of the guys like in your platoon in boot camp? Floyd Perry: Well, I’m gonna tell you, I have been blessed all the way through my Marine Corps experience. My platoon, 3,065, was honor platoon. We were honor platoon. So you know we were loyal. And everybody was like that, you know. Everybody was, we had, it was good. I guess at that time were most of the guys in your platoon, did you know if they were draftees or if they had volunteered? Floyd Perry: Volunteers. Volunteers, yeah. And so you get through basic training, and when was it that you found out or did you know ahead of time what your MOS was going to be? Floyd Perry: We found out, you know, we take those tests in boot camp, and I came up 03-11. And did they tell you when you were still in boot camp? Floyd Perry: Right. On the way to ITR. ITR. OK. So you were going to the infantry training regiment, and then when was it that you finally found out what unit you were going to be going to? Floyd Perry: Well, we didn’t find that out until we hit Vietnam. We went over on the USS Walker, a troop carrier. Now that was another experience. You know, you eat breakfast, then you line up for lunch. Yeah, and then after that, you line up for dinner. And then you get a little rest. Yeah, I’ve heard about some of those long travels on transport ships and just you get seasick and then you’re always in line to eat. Floyd Perry: Yep, it’s a real experience. So you were heading over with was it a group of Marines that just finished going through their final training? Floyd Perry: Right. 3 So all new Marines. Floyd Perry: All brand new Marines. And on your way over there, what thoughts did you have in your mind? Were you worried about anything or were you eager to see action, or what? Floyd Perry: Well you know, being a young Marine, you’re always eager. The thing that I had in my mind was like I had a friend of mine, and he was kind of scared. And he said I don’t think I’ll be coming back. And I used to tell him to get away from me, because I got a roundtrip ticket in my back pocket, and I said I’m coming back. And at that time, I know you’re a pastor now, at that time were you a religious person as well? Floyd Perry: Yes, I had been saved and yes, I believed in Jesus Christ even then. So I imagine then that probably gave you a sense of peace and helped you deal with things maybe that other Marines might not have been able to deal with just because of that? Floyd Perry: Well what it did, it helped my conduct. Now you know in war, there is still conduct. There are things you do and things you don’t do. You know, I tell the story of times I had this one time I’ll mention, I was running through a village. I was a point man, and we were told when you go through the field, the bomb shelters, the VC sometimes hide in the bomb shelters, and we were told toss a grenade in it. And so I was running through there, I had pulled my pin on my grenade, but when I looked, I seen Mama San, and four little Baby San’s in there, and I put that pin back in the grenade and kept going. See, that’s the kind of things that will save your mind, you know what I’m saying? Absolutely. So when you get to Vietnam aboard the ship, how long was it at that point, how much longer did you have to wait until you got to your unit? Floyd Perry: Well, we disembarked in Da Nang.
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